Disgraced TV Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has published a picture that confirms that the mystery location for the filming of his new venture is the International Autodrome, Portimão.
A picture published social media shows Clarkson posing alongside Richard Hammond and James May with their team, two trucks and three high performance sports cars.
The trio who are contracted in a multi-million deal to Amazon Prime Video to try and repeat their Top Gear success pose in front of a Ferrari, a McLaren P1 and a Porsche 918 Spyder against a backdrop that unmistakably is the Algarve’s autodrome.
The new programme has the working title of ‘Gear Knobs’ and will be available early in 2016 on the Amazon streaming service. Producer Andy Wilman also has left Top Gear to join the popular trio whose contracts were not renewed by BBC management.
Clarkson was sacked from the BBC after assaulting his producer Oisin Tymon in a row over catering facilities and despite his abrasive, rude and outspoken presentation style, has millions of fans worldwide who are keen to see his new show.
Clarkson's reference to Gordon Brown as "a one-eyed Scottish idiot" was perhaps a low point in the BBC's output and other supposedly racist remarks have received wide media coverage but the presenter's popularity outside the BBC's cloistered and politically correct corridors of power is massive with over 1 million people signing a petition to have him reinstated.
Top Gear management chose the former media bad boy Chris Evans to front the hit programme in a three year deal after Clarkson’s departure.
Evans' pay deal is not revealed but Clarkson is set to earn £10 million a year for a series of 36 episodes on Amazon Prime which has budgeted £4.5 million per show.
